Filing-case.



No. 815,535. 4 PATBNTED MAR. 20,1906;

' E. E. 'ILLIG.

' FILING CASE. APPLIOATION FILED FEB.14. 1905.

' Be it knownthat I, EDWARD EDWIN ILLIG,

UNITED srArns inrrnirr orinon.

EDWARD EDWIN nimdgor NEW roan,v N. Y.

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Specification of Letters, Patent.

Patent ed March 20, 1906.

Application filed February 14, 1905. Serial No. 245- 40- To all whom it mag/concern:

' a citizen of the United States, residing at useful Improvements in Filing-Cases, of which .the following is a description, reference being I New York, in the countyof New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and had to the accompanying drawings and to the numerals of reference thereon.

My invention relates to filing-cases, and has for its principal object to provide a novel form of filing case or drawer of the movablefront type in which the front may be opened in an upward direction and, be disposed in the plane of the top of the case or box. A further object of the invention is to improve the hinge or pivot arm constructionl so that when in closed position the weight of the movable front will be imposed on the bottom of the case and will not hang loose when the case is removed from the pigeonhole or cabinet space, and in this connection a further object is to so arrange and construct the hinge or hinges that the front may be locked in open position. 7

With these and otherobjects in view, as will more fully'hereinafter appear, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a filing-case constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, showing the open position of the front in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the front and its'hinge members detached.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The main portion or body of the case includes a top 10, abottom 11, sides 12 and a back piece 13. The front end of the side members are extended forward to the front' end of the bottom piece, and the upper edges thereof are cut at the front of the top member to form, in connection with the frontedge of the latter, a pair of short vertical walls or shoulders 14, the height of which is' equal to. or slightly greater than the thickness of the movable front 15, and the latter is preferably provided with the usual front plate or pull 16.

' The hinge members 17 are formed of thin sheet metal, and. each has at its front end an angularly bent flange 18, through which eX-.

tend securing screws or nails 19. The lower edges of the hinge members are straight and are disposed. at a right angle to the lane of the movable front, so that when the atter is in "the closed or vertical position the lower' Y edges of said hinge members will rest upon the bottom piece 11 and afford an extensionsupport for said front. The hinge members are pivoted to the sides by pins 20, and the arrangement is such that the front may be moved from the vertical closed position to a horizontal position, such as shown indotted lines in Fig. 2. Inthis latter position the upper edge of the front rests against the vertical wall 1 1 and the front piece is practically in ed with arib or corrugation A filing-case constructed in accordance with this invention is found convenient and is readily handled. nari'ly by insertin the forefinger under the hooked pull 16,) tlie front may be moved up to open position by a natural practical involuntary movement, and the papers in the case are instantly accessible.

Having thus described the said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina filing-case, bottom, side, back and top members, the latter being shorter than the bottom member and the front ends of the side members being cut to form short vertical walls at the front of said top member, and a -When withdrawn, (ordi- I roohinged front movable to an open position device for frictional engagement with one of against said vertical Walls and in a position in the side members. IO horizontal alinement With the top member. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 2. In a filing-case, bottom, side, back and in the presence of two Witnesses 5 top members, a movable front, and hinge EDWARD EDWIN ILLIG.

members connecting the front to the side Witnesses: members, one of said hinge members having PHILIP SCHULTZ,

a rib or corrugation constituting a holding ED. M. LANGEN. 

